Steroid Use

"The Major League Baseball has suspended Mariners' Jesus Montero for 50 games after he was found violating the drug policy of the league."

"According to media reports from Turkey, at least 16 oil wrestlers have tested positive for banned performance enhancing substances in the latest doping scandal to hit the country."

"The 19-year-old student, and son of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions fly-half Craig Chalmers, is alleged to have tested positive in a random drugs test while involved with Scotland Under-20s towards the end of last season. The IRB, SRU and Melrose RFC all declined to comment on the case, other than to re-state their commitment to keeping rugby clean and disciplining players in line with the UK Sport and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines."

"One of the easiest ways to prevent pain is to engage in activities like walking, gardening, swimming, and dancing as they tend to ease some of the pain in a direct manner by inhibiting pain signals sent to the brain. Moreover, these activities are useful to stretch stiff and tense joints, ligaments, and muscles to lessen the severity and occurrence of pain."

"Members of the inner circle of Alex Rodriguez obtained and leaked documents that implicated Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers and others involving in Biogenesis scandal. The leak happened in February, according to "60 Minutes", after the Miami New Times published documents implicating Rodriguez in the Biogenesis investigation. However, Rodriguez's lawyer, David Cornwell, denies the allegations."

"Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, may be in doubt for the next Olympic Games unless his nation gets its act together on its anti-doping measures. The World Anti-Doping Agency last night warned Jamaica it risked expulsion from major competitions if it failed to address failings highlighted by a former senior employee."

"A new anti-doping centre was recently opened by Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko in the grounds of Moscow's physical culture and sports research institute. However, many believe the sincerity of the hosts of the World Athletics Championships against doping will be under the spotlight after many top athletes of the country tested positive in the run-up to the event."

"In a series of interviews in recent days, one of Alex Rodriguez's attorneys said he would like nothing more than to discuss Major League Baseball's case against the Yankees slugger, if only the league would free him from a confidentiality clause built into the league's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program."

"Tour de France 2013 winner Chris Froome has remarked that drug cheats in cycling should be given life bans. The Team Sky rider believes harsher sanctions still need to be handed down to anyone testing positive for drugs and remarked the sport has now moved on from past scandals."

"A Jamaican international footballer and a Jamaican team official have been provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for an initial period of 30 days."

The new lawyer for Alex Rodriguez, opening a fresh defence for a player who sees himself as unfairly targeted by Major League Baseball and his team, said that the New York Yankees tried to hasten the end of his career by playing him when he was injured and that baseball's commissioner is personally determined to brand Rodriguez as the "poster boy" for doping.

"Sorry, Lance, but for Greg LeMond it really is all about the bike. LeMond, a three-time Tour de France champion, regaled a Portland crowd of 750 cycling enthusiasts with stories of epic Tour de France battles, his feud with Lance Armstrong over doping, and his own physical struggles to overcome being shot. LeMond spoke Wednesday at the Portland Art Museum as part of the "Cyclepedia" exhibit."

"Colombian climbing sensation Nairo Quintana has remarked that fight against doping of cycling has helped him excel at the Tour de France by allowing his intense training to make a difference."

"UCI president, Pat McQuaid, believes it was because of him that the world of cycling is a doping-free world. The embattled president of the world cycling body recently remarked that he is part of the "new guard" in the sport."

"A record 1,974 athletes from 206 countries have entered the 47 events in Moscow, but doping and injuries have deprived the year's biggest single sports event of several top attractions. Germany is sending 67 athletes and is hoping to do well right at the start of the competition in the decathlon. "To win a medal right at the start would be a great beginning," said Clemens Prokop, president of the German athletics federation (DLV), with European decathlon champion Pascal Behrenbruch in mind."

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revealed that a product marketed as a vitamin B dietary supplement contains two potentially harmful anabolic steroids and should not be used by consumers. Healthy Life Chemistry By Purity First B-50 contains methasterone and dimethazine, according to laboratory analysis. The ingredients were not listed on the label and should not be present in a dietary supplement."

"Nine Turkish track and field athletes have been banned after testing positive for anabolic steroids in the latest doping scandal to hit the campaign of Istanbul to win 2020 Olympics hosting rights."

"Lord Coe, after a flurry of recent high-profile failed drug tests, has called on sporting authorities to 'get tough with physios, get tough with coaches, get tough with managers and agents' of doping athletes."

"Dick Pound, the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has admitted that the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has forced him to question 'everything I see'. Pound, a 71-year-old Canadian lawyer, was founding chairman of WADA and is a former president of the agency, as well as a senior member of the International Olympic Committee. "

"The IOC and IAAF are looking at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field. The world bodies said though the positive tests that nabbed top-name sprinters Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson are disappointing but they have shown proof that global drug-testing efforts are working."